A blog for lovers
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 28 May – until now – verse by Thomas Moore – art by Carl Larsson – birth of Ian Fleming, Walker Percy & Maeve Binchy
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Hope you had a good day! Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, with a focus on the word, untilthe song came pretty quick;‘’So tear me open, pour me outThere’s things inside that scream and shoutAnd the pain still hates meSo hold me until it sleeps’’‘’Metallica baby’’the obvious analogy hereis…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 27 May – return – birth of Wild Bill Hickok – art by Georges Rouault – verse by Linda Pastan
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Check us out on Twitter @cowboycoleridge. I hope Mac Tag keeps up the love song of the day. I like it. I also like New Orleans. I have spent some time there with some beautiful women. Somethin’ about those Southern Belles. And I love the Walt Whitman quote below. Rhett The…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 26 May – need – birth of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – photography by Dorothea Lange
Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Follow us of Twitter @cowboycoleridge. Howzit goin’ Z? Same same here; chores, readin’, writin’, sippin’ some mezcal. Probably have some red wine and a steak later. In other words, the typical life for a solitary cowboy. Be good to yourself. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, i think i have a good oneand the first that…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 25 May – always, reprise – art by Carlo Dolci & Will Barnet – birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louise de Broglie, Theodore Roethke, & Raymond Carver – premiere of The Thin Man
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, this has to be one of two songs;“Now that my blue days have passed,Now that I’ve found you at last- I’ll be loving you Always”by the great Irving Berlinor this one we know so well, if not the songwriters,Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher, and Mark…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 24 May – la llorona – art by Pontormo & Alexei Savrasov – death of Jane Hyde
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his Muse. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, have not seen her, nor heard any weepin’there are a myriad of songs that would work“Right, some days we have to search, not today”i think we should go with perhaps the mostbeautifully hauntin’ song ever, by one of our faves;”I was alrightFor awhileI could…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 23 May – passin’ by – art by Carl Bloch, Amaldus Nielsen, Luis Ricardo Falero, József Rippl-Rónai & Gustaw Gwozdecki – birth of Jane Kenyon
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. I agree with Mac Tag’s comment at the end. What about you Zazie? Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, did not think of a songbut thought of an epitaphand that leads to a poemand then to a book;‘’Cast a cold eyeOn life, on deathHorseman, pass by!’’Yeats from his poem, ‘’Under Ben…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 22 May – comfort – birth of Gérard de Nerval – art by Fritz von Uhde, Hildegard Thorell, Mary Cassatt & Belmiro Almeida
Hey Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, like a coat from the cold no song came right to mind,so off we go in another direction”We can handle that my love”when someone is hurtin’ from a deep woundthey may go to great lengths to soothe the acheand take comfort however they can…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 21 May – beginnin’ – art by Henri Rousseau
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Visit us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Z, miss you. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, begin the dream…-Under a big desert sky, clear night, full moon and stars shining,they come upon a sleeping gypsy, she is wearing a long robewith a rainbow of colourful stripes and lies upon a…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 20 May – discovery – Shakespeare’s Sonnets – birth of Honoré de Balzac – art by Henri-Edmond Cross
Dear Zazie, Hey Z, guess whose birthday is today? The late, great Joe Cocker! So you know what that means; we have to play one of our favorite songs! Here is Cocker’s version of the Randy Newman song, from the official video from the movie 9 1/2 Weeks, our song, and the song of the day “You Can Leave…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 19 May – crowns – art by Claude Vignon & Walter Popp – photography by Kati Horna & John Vachon
Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Visit us on Twitter @cowboycoleridge. Z, be cool, be safe, be smart. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, have to go with a song about starsi was thinkin’ crown of starswhen i came up with this theme”Ok, much easier to find a stars song”first one i thought of was “Stars…
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